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On the Affine Image of a Rational Surface of Revolution

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  • Juan G. Alcázar

    (Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Madrid, Spain)

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We study the properties of the image of a rational surface of revolution under a nonsingular affine mapping. We prove that this image has a notable property, namely that all the affine normal lines , a concept that appears in the context of affine differential geometry , created by Blaschke in the first decades of the 20th century, intersect a fixed line. Given a rational surface with this property, which can be algorithmically checked, we provide an algorithmic method to find a surface of revolution, if it exists, whose image under an affine mapping is the given surface; the algorithm also finds the affine transformation mapping one surface onto the other. Finally, we also prove that the only rational affine surfaces of rotation , a generalization of surfaces of revolution that arises in the context of affine differential geometry, and which includes surfaces of revolution as a subtype, affinely transforming into a surface of revolution are the surfaces of revolution, and that in that case the affine mapping must be a similarity.

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  • Juan G. Alcázar, 2020. "On the Affine Image of a Rational Surface of Revolution," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:8:y:2020:i:11:p:2061-:d:447481
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